What the Heart Desires (2015)
“Stopping at the local Chinese restaurant, we picked up our dinner, sweet and sour chicken, beef and broccoli, wonton soup and four vegetable egg rolls. We were hungry and exhausted. Entering Tamika’s apartment, kicking off our shoes, we headed into her small kitchen and sat at the table, barely taking the time to get plates, as we taste the food from the carton.
Gazing out of the window at the building next door, I said to her, “You know we will have to cook our own food to make ends meet.” “You can cook?” She questions as if I’m an alien from Mars.
“Can’t you?” I narrow my gaze. “Of course I can cook. That’s one of the first things a girl from the south is taught, how to cook,” I say. “Why I can make a brown gravy you could swear has meat in it.” “Hold that thought,” she says pointing her finger at me, “because we will be eating that gravy without meat if we don’t get a job soon.
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